THE SAVAGE WORLD 
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The Papuan Kangaroo ( Macropus papauna ) is of interest to the naturalist 
because its discovery upset the conviction that the fauna of New Guinea included 
no represent¬ 
ative of the 
family. 
The An- 
telope Kan¬ 
garoo {Hal- 
maturus anti- 
lopinus ) is 
large but 
takes its 
name rather 
from its deer¬ 
like skin. It 
belongs to 
Australia. 
The Brush 
Kangaroo 
(Helmaturus 
bennettii ) is Tasmanian, and valuable alike for its flesh and its covering. 
The Nailed Kangaroo ( Macropus unguifer) is a typical variety of the 
smaller kangaroos, 
whose tail seems to 
be supplied with at 
least a rudimentary 
nail. It is found in 
the Austro-Malayan 
Islands and i 11 u s- 
trates transitions of 
form. 
The Great Kan¬ 
garoo, or Giant 
Kangaroo (Macropus 
major ), belongs t o 
New South Wales, 
and is quite graceful 
when making its im¬ 
mense leaps of as 
much as twenty feet. 
It is warmly clad in 
brown yellow hair, 
and attains the height 
of six or seven feet. 
Like the rest of its 
tribe, when leaping, 
it does not use its 
fore legs, but jumps like men in a sack-race. It has a special adaptation 
of its incisor teeth which enables it to clip the thinnest blades of grass as 
BRUSH KANGAROOS. 
